The Association of Power Generation Companies (APGC) has urged the Federal Government to pay up all legacy power generation debts. APGC also lauded the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Plc (NBET), for the improvement in debts payment for their generated energy. APGC which is the umbrella body for the power Generation Companies...
The Federal Government has dismissed claims that it will dismantle the power Distribution Companies (DisCos) but warned them to improve on electricity supply. The Minister of State for Power, Mr Goddy Jedy-Agba disclosed this on Thursday when he inspected the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC),on saying he had gone to...
The Minister of State for Power, Mr Goddy Jedy-Agba has charged three agencies in the power sector to increase their service delivery towards providing improved power supply. The minister said this when he briefed the press at his office in Abuja. “Businesses will grow up if they have light. So...
Various stakeholders have congratulated Engineer Sule Ahmed Abdulaziz, on his recent appointment as the new acting Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN). The General Manager, Public Affairs at TCN, Ndidi Mbah said, Engr. Abdulaziz recently received his appointment letter with effect from May...
The Minister of Power, Engr. Sale Mamman, has been given special commendation by the Senate Committee on Power for sanitizing and repositioning the Power sector in Nigeria for improved performance. At a public hearing on the "Power Sector Plan and the Impact on the COVID-19 pandemic", at the Senate building...
The power Distribution Companies (DisCos) have never gotten any free money from the Federal Government. Out of the N1.8 trillion so far injected into the power sector, DisCos have only accessed N58 billion loan from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) N214bn loan facility, which is being repaid. This was...
The Power Sector, the Honourable Minister of Power Engr. Sale Mamman, has announced the appointment of Dr. Nnaemeka Ewelukwa as the new Managing Director for the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading, PLC, NBET as the erstwhile MD, Dr. Marilyn Amobi proceeds on terminal leave. A statement by the Minister's Special Adviser...
Colonel Sani Bello (Rtd) is the Chairman, board of directors of Mainstream Energy Solutions Limited (MESL), concessionaire for the Kainji and Jebba hydropower plants in Niger State. In this interview, Col. Bello  spoke about the implications  of the calls to reverse the gains of the power sector privatisation and what...
Power Generation Companies (GenCos) in Nigeria have said they have raised power plants’ capacity by 4,000 megawatts (MW) seven years after the privatization and despite being owed over N600 billion debts. Speaking against the call for the traversal of the 2013 power sector privatization made recently by the Senate President,...
Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) has announced the deployment of a smart high-tension overhead fault detector for 11 kilovolts (KV) and 33KV high tension power lines, becoming the first of such Nigeria. The General Manager, Corporate Communications, Oyebode Fadipe in a statement he issued on Wednesday, said AEDC partnered Aquivis...